how do strokes cause brain pain?

Question

how do strokes cause brain pain?

In: Biology

Answer 1

So the brain actually doesn’t have any pain receptors. It does not ‘hurt’ like a foot or other body part with pain receptors or nociceptors. What hurts is the parts surrounding the brain, muscles, skull, vessels. These parts send out signals when under duress and the brain interprets that as pain depending on the signal and receptors.